Sun Clothes Festival showcases folk customs of Yao ethnic group

Yao ethnic women show the traditional production process of Yao's clothing during the Sun Clothes Festival. [Photo by Pan Zhixiang/gxnews.com.cn]

Yao ethnic people celebrated the Sun Clothes Festival in Longsheng Ge autonomous county of South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on July 18, attracting loads of domestic and foreign tourists to appreciate the local folk custom.

The festival falls on the sixth day of the sixth month in the lunar calendar when Yao people get together to dry their clothes, comb their hair, make Yao's traditional clothes and hold collective wedding ceremonies, providing visitors with a profound sense of Yao cultural depth.

Yao ethnic women sit in circles to display clothes-making techniques. [Photo by Pan Zhixiang/gxnews.com.cn]